Molecular species identification, host preference and detection of myxoma virus in the Anopheles maculipennis complex (Diptera: Culicidae) in southern England, UK

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Brugman, Victor A ^a,b,c   Hernández Triana, Luis M ^c   Prosser, Sean W J ^d   Weland, Chris ^e   Westcott, David G ^c   Fooks, Anthony R ^c,f   Johnson, Nicholas ^c  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c VETERINARY LABORATORIES AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anopheles; Blood meal; DNA barcoding; Host preference; Mosquito; Myxoma virus

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; DNA; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER 2;

ANOPHELES; ANOPHELES MACULIPENNIS; ANOPHELES MESSEAE; ARTICLE; CANIS LUPUS; COI GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; GENE SEQUENCE; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HOST SELECTION; ITS 2 GENE; MITOCHONDRIAL GENE; MYXOMA VIRUS; NONHUMAN; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; TAURINE CATTLE; UNITED KINGDOM; VIRUS DETECTION; ANIMAL; BLOOD; ENGLAND; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MYXOMATOSIS, INFECTIOUS; RABBIT; VIROLOGY;

ANOPHELES ATROPARVUS; ANOPHELES MACULIPENNIS; ANOPHELES MESSEAE; BOS; CANIS FAMILIARIS; CULICIDAE; DIPTERA; LEPORIPOXVIRUS; MYXOMA VIRUS; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; POXVIRIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; ENGLAND; MYXOMA VIRUS; MYXOMATOSIS, INFECTIOUS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RABBITS;

EID: 84939206617     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13071-015-1034-8     Document Type: Article

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